, 1887-07-30
ToWN TALK.
Little Paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.

throughout the City.
The maximum temperature yesterday
was 800, a drop of l00 from the previous
day.
John Doe, for ~carouslng around the
streets in an intoxicated condition with a
lewd female on his arm, was fined $40 in
the police court Yesterday. He paid.
Judge j. R. Whitehead has been add
ed to Col. Luke Murrln's staff. He and
Ed Fry have charge of the office of the
clerk of court during the colonel's alb
sence.
In case Trumble is ever hanged, it will
be a very recherche entertainment. The
execution will occur inside an enclosure
and only invited guests will be admitted.
This announcement is official.
A weak nerved lady tainted at the fire
yesterday morning during the discharge
Of cartridges in the burning building.
The application of a few drops of water
to her face steadied her shattered nerves.
The appeal of j. K. McGill from the
clause of the recent Sparks circular ele-
waiting the price of desert land, will be
heard at the United States land office to-
day. J. @. Baird is Mr.. McGill's attor-
ney.
Six trains of cattle from Pocatello,
Idaho, have passed through the city in
the past few days, and two more train
loads are coming. The consignment is a
herd Of $500 feeders for Nebraska
points.
The homestead entry of E. A. Hewes,
in johnson county, is held for cancella-
ton by the local land office officials. The
contestant was 7. w. Aiken, who proved
that Hewes had lost title to the claim by
abandoning it.
Geo. McSwain has received the con-
tract for the erection of E. A. Reeds
new residence near the corner of Twenty
first and Ferguson streets. The building
will be a neat two story frame structure,
and will cost about $4,000.
lhC COuutJ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES dClluR az u
board of equalization have been in session
until a late hour the past two nights.
To-day is the last occasion on which per-
sons not satisfied with the assessment for
1887 will have an opportunity to object to
valuations.
Chas. Cooley. the man wounded in the
leg during the shooting at Chugwater on
the 25th inst, remains in about the same
condition physically, though he is cross
and irritable, and were he able bodied
would probably iniure someone during
his cranky spells.
Persons residing on the south side fire.
quently complain that it is very incon.
%venient, if not absolutely unsafe, to
cross the Union Pacific tracks after night
fall. They are compelled to either crawl
under cars which are liable to be set in
motion at ANY time, or walk a long dis
lance around them.
The streets of Cheyenne are now in
pretty good condition, but the street and
alley guardians have not yet inaugurated
the customary yearly overhauling of the
alleys. Perhaps such a proceeding would
not add much to the beauty of the city,
but it would undoubtedly greatly benefit
the sanitary condition of certain neigh
borhoods.
Alderman Altman, chairman of the
mark nnm mIftan hoe OHaral 10 nro,o.
a stand, seats, ETC., in case the city band
will give occasional concerts in the resort,
and the organization will probably accept
the proposition. They rendered a couple
of fine selections at the corner of Seven
teenth and Ferguson streets last evening,
and drew a large crowd.
Policeman Nolan arrested a drunken
individual OF Sixteenth street last even
ing who said he was a bookkeeper, a law
yer, a doctor and a linquist. and could
thrash any policeman in town in less than
a minute. The officer informed him that
he must be one OF the educated fools fire.
quently heard of, and locked the accom-
plished gentleman in the city Jail.
Ohas. Thomas, the hide merchant, has
been appointed sheep inspector of Lara
ME county. This office was created by
the last Legislature. Mr.. Thomas, will
leave at an early dav for a point on the
western boundary line of the county,
where it is anticipated that a large flock
OF diseased sheep will enter the district
which he now protects, so far as the
sheep interests are concerned.
Rheumatism in any form is cured by
St Jacobs oil. Price fifty cents.